The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-05-24
FEEDING YOUNG PIGS.

shortest way 10 glory IS 10 De GUIDED
by conscience.-Good Housekeeping.
FEEDING YOUNG PIGS.
The FsttenIng Eject Of Various Articles q
Food In Common Use.
Much of the future development Of
pigs depends on how they are fed for
the first four or FIVE months. A
specially fattening food should be
avoided, and ration provided that
will cause the pigs to grow rapidly
without laying on fat
In the dairy there is plenty of skim
milk, which is well adapted to grow
the young pig, as it is rich in phos-
phate of lime to grow the bones and of
cheesy, slbuminoid matter to grow the
muscles. A little corn may be given
with the milk. Such pigs never grow
into little round dumps of fat, but
grow into rangy shoats. Yet proba-
bly,. majority of our readers have the
pigs without the skim-milk, and we
must name the food for pigs under such
circumstances. One of the best foods
for the young pig is small quantity of
linseed-oil meal, a tablespoonful to the
fifteen-pound pig, increased as the pig
grows; this, fed with oats and corn
ground together. made into a slop, will
cause rapid growth, but not premature
fattening. Cotton-seed meal is some
times used. but we can not recommend
it for young pigs. 1t is not so easily
digested, and it has not the same bene-
fetal laxative effect as linseed meal,
which is found to be a promoter of
health in the pig. This can be procured
at any considerable town all over the
country. and those who raise and feed
large numbers of hogs can afford to
send to the oil mills for it, and get it at
wholesale rates. 1t can be bought at
the mills at $40 to s25 per ton. and it is
always worth these prices as q food
1t is so rich in muscle-forming matter
as to be of great value to feed with
corn, which is so deficient in this quail
ity.
Peas are also an excellent pig food.
rich in muscle-forming matter, and can
usually be purchased at about the same
price as linseed meal. Peas and corn,
ground together, made an excellent
food, when cooked, for young pigs.
Millet, ground with oats, will grow
young pigs without fattening them.
Another combination of food for young
pigs is, ten bushels of oats, FIVE bushels
of corn, and one bushel of haxseed,
mixed and ground fine together. This
small proportion of faxseed will keep
the digestive organs in the best cOndi-
ton. That makes a.ration just laxa-
tive enough for health. We have seen
herd of pigs make a magnificent ay-
ersge growth upon this ration in win
ter. Bran and fine middlings are also
often used for pigs. They are often
used to mix with corn meal. and make
q great improvement over feeding the
meal alone, but pigs do not digest bran
so we'll as Eliminating animals. We
have fed bran to pigs with profit to
make bulk in the ration, but, as food,
we do not consider it as good as the
other foods we have named.
In the summer, small pigs will be
given the benefit of grass in pasture,
and. in that case, they are not likely to
fatten much on any food. The grass
and exercise change the effect of the
other food materially.
The feeder must watch the effect of
food upon his pigs, and If it has too
much of fattening effect he must at
once change the combination of food.
remove the most fattening part of the
ration, and substitute something less
so.
Why should not those who feed ami
mails so carefully, study every element
in their business as the master mechanic
does his. He studies mechanical prin-
ciples; let the feeder as carefully study
the effects of foods and know precisely
how to apply them to produce the de-
sired effects. Feeders, have, generally.
paid so little attention to the different
qualities Of foods, that their principal
concern was to see whether the ami
mails eat the food with a relish. Il
was taken for granted that any food
eaten readily by animals must be good
for them, and feeders do net seem to
think it necessary to have more than
one food at a time. But the last few
years have shown much progress in
studying the relative value of foods,
and the method of combining them in
the ration.-National Livestock Jour-
nal.
First Omaha girl-Isn't that Mr.
De Sweete horrid? He hadn't any
business to kiss You last night Sec
ond Omaha girl-Not a bit; the for
felt was that he was to kiss his sister.
"Yes, and he pretended that he made .
mistake. Weren't you horriied?" "No;
| got awful mad about it. though. He's
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